Hmmm! Very interesting, ChrisT! I wonder why the overlap, what happens to the
air between the discs?
US DoD, resident in the UK? That sounds unlikely.
Chris
C M I Barker | Gamlingay
> On 2 Jul 2018, at 21:20, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Actually, this particular design has been rendered obsolete. An inventor
> in Australia has come up with a new concept in hoverbike design. He started
> out with a bicopter design, with the two rotors gimbaled for control. He
> quickly found that he couldn't recover from a tight turn. So, he tried a
> design similar to a quadcopter, but with the two pairs of rotors overlapping.
> The result was a compact design that vectors the thrust for control. The
> body and frame is a combination of aluminum and carbon fibre, much like a
> lightweight bicycle.
>
> He has moved to Britain, and has acquired funding from an Angel investor,
> probably the US DoD. He has at least two working scale models, and a
> full-size version is soon to come.
>
> Here's a video of one of the scaled models:
>
> https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/hover2.gif
>
> and a link to his website:
>
> https://www.hover-bike.com/
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